ABSTRACT
This section discusses the healing potential of a religious outlook and explores how both Jung and Kierkegaard used imagination and rigorous self-analysis in the development of their thinking and understanding of such a potential. Jung’s Red Book is understood as his own personal coming to terms with God, an approach to making whole/to heal. Healing consists in the active engagement with symptoms and not a ‘curing’ in the Freudian sense but a change of outlook through growth of personality. The argument is here first introduced that Religion for both Jung and Kierkegaard is viewed as a psychological experience, more importantly; Jung and Kierkegaard are united in their positions that all neurotic problems are generally speaking religious problems and the aim of Jung’s individuation and Kierkegaard’s salvation is not perfection of the self, but a unified, whole and authentic self.
